Extreme microallopatric divergence in a cichlid species from Lake Malawi |
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Authors: | Rico C Turner G F |
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Institution: | School of Biological Sciences, Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK. c.rico@uea.ac.uk |
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Abstract: | We demonstrate significant population structuring on an extremely small spatial scale between adjacent demes of a Lake Malawi haplochromine cichlid species of the mbuna group, Pseudotropheus callainos, separated by only 35 m of habitat discontinuity. This substantiates further the notion that intralacustrine allopatric divergence may help to explain the high level of species richness of the mbuna in comparison to other Malawian cichlids, as well as of the Malawian haplochromines as a whole. |
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Keywords: | cichlids Lake Malawi microstallites population structure |
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